This Day: Diaries from American Women Ed. Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey, and B.K. Rakhra “What is a day in the life really like for a CEO, a single mom, a TV celebrity, an inmate?” This was the question that inspired This Day, a book project that invited a cross-section of women to create a […]

In 2004, I was invited by visual artist, Chanika Svetvilas to include my story in her installation “Living American” for the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. She found a powder blue hard plastic suitcase, just like the one I remembered we came to America carrying. The installation was a collection of immigrant stories. Each suitcase […]

Up Set Press, which I co-founded with fellow poet Robert Booras in 2000, will be republishing Born Black, Born Palestinian, Suheir Hammad’s first book of poetry. I met Suheir when this collection was about to be released. Needless to say, after so many years of being inspired by her words, of learning from and teaching […]

To be interstitial, therefore, is to operate both within and astride the cracks and fissures of the system, benefiting from its contradictions, anomalies, and heterogeneity. It also means being located at the intersection of the local and the global, mediating between the two contrary categories which in syllogism are called subalternity and superalternity. Hamid Naficy: […]